The credit on the US version of the film, "Battle Beyond the Sun", was given to "Thomas Colchart", a pseudonym for then -spiring filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Roger Corman gave him the task of creating two monsters resembling genitalia (one male, one female) which were amusingly spliced into the film.
In 1962 Roger Corman and Francis Ford Coppola produced an English-language re-edit of the film for US release, entitled "Battle Beyond the Sun". They removed the US/Soviet conflict, blotted out all the Russian writing, replaced scenes showing models and paintings of Soviet spacecraft with scenes showing NASA ones, replaced the names of all the actors with the names of the people who did the overdubbing, and inserted scenes with monsters. In all, the edit is 13 minutes shorter than the original. The film was distributed by American-International Pictures.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) used drawings and graphics solutions from "Nebo Zovyot" (the original Russian film Roger Corman re-edited to become "Battle Beyond the Sun"), created by the fiction artist Yuri Shvets.
Some space scenes from this film also appear in Roger Corman's Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965).
At 10:15 the left rocket fin has a red star which was one symbol of the Soviet Union.